Discover Wild Edibles on These 3 Foraging Tours

Spring blossoms are here. If you’re anxious to get outside, see things growing, and eat them, your best bet is foraging. If walking into the woods and eating things seems dicey, here are three experts in Brooklyn and beyond who will show you how to do it without poisoning yourself.

Take a mushroom walk in the Catskills

Learn how to grow shiitake mushrooms, how to forage for morels in the woods, and the medicinal qualities of a variety of local mushrooms. Catskill Fungi is a family business, a place in the woods where mushrooms are cultivated using permaculture principles. In addition to the tours at Catskill Fungi’s home base in Big Indian, N.Y., there are also May and June walks planned at Lake Onteora near Kingston, N.Y., and in Wyckoff, N.J.

Getting there: Catskill Fungi is off of route 28, about two hours by car from the George Washington Bridge.

Eat edible plants in Brooklyn and beyond with Wildman Steve Brill

Wildman Steve Brill offers walking tours every weekend in which he teaches folks about foraging for the edible plants you walk past every day, plants growing in our parks and unruly patches of land, including Brooklyn’s own Prospect Park. Other upcoming walks take place in Idlewild Park in Queens, Central Park, and in the Bronx near the Hutchinson River Parkway.

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Learn about wild herbs on Long Island

Dr. Ellen Kamhi, known as the Natural Nurse, has written books about how herbs can improve your sex life, help you lose weight, and ease arthritis. In addition to teaching at nursing schools and leading online courses, she offers a wild herbs medicinal walk — the next one is June 8 in Old Beth Page, Long Island.

Getting there: It’s one hour on the Ronkonkoma-bound LIRR line to Old Country Road/Planview and then a taxi ride from the station.

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